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Don't move, or I'll snap your neck like a chicken leg.
I've cut the phone line.
I don't have a home phone.
Not anymore you don't.
I bet you're wondering who I am. I've been watching you for a long time, Mary.
I know you better than your friends do.
How long?
A long time.
Like what, a month, a year?
I've been smelling your feet every night for the past 12 years.
Oh.
Yeah, ok? Are we on the same page now?
So you can imagine my reaction when I found out about Tom!
We're just friends, I swear!
I'm not stupid, Mary!
Did you ever once think about how that might make me feel?
Well, I didn't know you existed until about 30 seconds ago, sooo...
Thanks. Thanks a lot. You know what?
I was going to give you the chance to apologize, but now I think I'm just going to have to
kill you.
Any last requests?
Uh, can I get one last... stretch?
You wanna stretch?
Yeah, I had a Zumba class today.
You done? You got it out of your system?
Oh, and I'd just like to thank my mom and my dad for giving birth to me.
And my 8th grade teacher Ms. Clara for encouraging me to pursue a career in interpretive dance.
And my hamster, Mr. Pickles, for licking my face every morning.
It's the little things that count.
Ok. Prepare yourself, this is going to-
Wait, wait!
What?!
You have to promise me something.
You have to promise to take care of my cats when I'm gone.
I'm not gonna-
You don't want the little kittens to starve, do you?
Well...
Do you?!
No.
Good. Now, they need to be fed three times a day,
and they like having their snack right before bed at 11 o'clock.
Lucy only like beef in gravy, and Remy needs to be brushed every other day with the purple
brush.
Now, on Tuesdays and Thursdays-
Hang on, I need to find a pen.
...but she'll only meow for you if you're holding the green cup.
Otherwise, you'll have to start over with the song...
Green... cup... ok. Now that that's out of the way-
Wait!
What.
I have to sneeze.
Are you kidding me?
No, you know, just one last really good sneeze. Like when...
Ah... ah...
You're not even sneezing.
It's coming, it's right there...
I don't have time for this! God!
I think I left the oven on.
It's. Off.
No no, really, I think I left it on.
It will make me feel better if you check.
She's scared, she's scared. I'd be scared.
It's ok, it was off... Where'd you go?!
Get- get outta here!
I like your mask. What kind of knots are these?
Are these bowline knots? I bet they are.
I have a dress that looks like it's made of bowline knots, but it's not.
Shut up! No more interruptions!
Wait a sec, is that knife clean? I don't wanna get an infection.
What do you care, I'm about to kill you?
But I'm clean, and your last victim might have had AIDS.
Then you'd be known as the guy that gave a girl AIDS. Is that what you want?
Well, I've never done this before. You're my first victim.
Really? I'm your first? Awww.
Hey, will you do one last thing for me? I promise, this is the last, last thing,
and then you can kill me as much as you want.
... Ok.
Will you read the last part of this book for me?
I really wanna know how it ends. Just the last sentence.
Even now, through the courtyard gate, Amelia could still see him pulling his little, red
wagon.
Wait, I don't get it. Read a little more.
"... through to autumn's quiet hush, Michael's hasty remarks echoed through the valley.
'Won't you ever forgive me, Amelia?' he exhalted, not wanting to hear her answer.
'If I could, I would have already.' Amelia whispered to herself."
I think what the author is trying to communicate is that, while Michael expresses grief in
his death,
Amelia's willingness to move beyond her father's suicide is simultaneously
defeating the progress she's made in her chemotherapy research
for orphaned baby orangutans.
Ah-choo!
God Dammit!